High school classes will compare water quality on either side of the Atlantic. Students will be encourage to consider the importance of water quality, threats to water quality and ideas for protecting water quality.

This is a collaboration for the Challenge 20/20 project, 2013. Participating schools are from Tennessee, Texas, and Brazil, and will be communicating to propose solutions to the digital divide and poverty.

This collaboration is between Corona Secondary School Agbara in Lagos, Nigeria, St. John's School in Vancouver, Canada and Eagle Rock School and Professional Developement Center in Colorado, USA.
Our collaboration is for the Winter Term of 2013

Collaboration page for The Gunnery, in Washington, CT; The Daly College in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India & Trinity Hall in Leonardo, NJ. The topic for this collaboration is: Global problem assigned: Massive step-up in the fight against poverty
Grade level of team: 9-12
TERM ONE September 2013 - February 2014 (Report due on February 4, 2014)

Our investigation seeks to find an adequate response to the illegal drug culture through an understanding of the development of its market. We will derive action plans using biological, psychological, historical, political, and economic sources.

Global-citizen students from Episcopal Collegiate School-Jackson T. Stephens Campus in Arkansas, Rockingham County High School in North Carolina, and Colegio Menor San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador will work together on the global topics of peacekeeping, conflict prevention, and combating terroism. This collaboration will begin in September, 2013 and will conclude in February, 2014.

This is a collaboration between Bethel Elementary School in Midland, North Carolina in the USA, Browne Academy in Alexandria, Virginia in the USA, and Uganda Martyrs Namilyango Junior Boys School in Mukono, Uganda. Together we will explore solutions to the problem of global water deficits.

A partnership between The American School Foundation in Mexico City, Mexico;
Rosemont School of the Holy Child in Rosemont, PA; and The Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, PA. We will research national and international water deficits.

The Challenge 20/20 Program is based on the book High Noon: 20 Global Problems and 20 Years to Solve Them by Jean-Francois Rischard, former Vice-President at the World Bank, which can be ordered through the NAIS Bookstore. The 20 Global Problems are listed below, with links to related resources on TakingITGlobal that may be helpful for research purposes:

About The Program
Challenge 20/20 is an Internet-based program that pairs classes at any grade level (K-12) from schools in the U.S. with their counterpart classes in schools in other countries; together the teams (of two or three schools) tackle real global problems to find solutions that can be implemented at the local level and in their own communities. Learn more about the program! All materials posted through this platform may be used by NAIS for marketing and display purposes, including video and pictures, and may be posted on the NAIS web site to serve as examples as well as on other websites such as iEARN's Connect All Schools. Click here for the Challenge 20/20 Portal Users' Guide!

If you have any questions about the program, contact Ioana Wheeler, Director of Global Initiatives and Board of Trustees Programs at NAIS - (202) 973-9755.